Example sentences of "[vb past] to be carry " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he pretended to be carrying court documents . |
| 2 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 3 | A train was blown up in Cambodia 's Battambang province in the latest of a series of attacks believed to be carried out by Khmer Rouge guerrillas . |
| 4 | In addition , there are 15,000 people known to be HIV-positive and twice as many believed to be carrying the virus without requesting medical help . |
| 5 | Then it was rumoured that Haj Amin al-Husseini , the Grand Mufti , was travelling from his postwar sanctuary in Lebanon to Acre and there was an ambush at Insherah on the bus believed to be carrying him . |
| 6 | So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice . |
| 7 | After a time Milhaez began to sing and the boat seemed to be carried upriver on his voice . |
| 8 | Industrialists often made that sort of threat , but they rarely seemed to be carried out . |
| 9 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 10 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 11 | The imperialist politicians who , at the turn of the century , seemed to be carrying all before them , turned out to be far less powerful than Hobson and others had feared . |
| 12 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century these forms of ‘ live ’ variety seemed to be carrying all before them and they had become almost the symbolic or quintessential entertainment of the new city . |
| 13 | His schedule had worked , but only because he seemed to be carrying out most of it himself . |
| 14 | One of the lads seemed to be carrying a bag . |
| 15 | The wine waiter happened to be carrying a very rare bottle indeed . |
| 16 | It was n't purely coincidental that she happened to be carrying the details of previous work experience , for she 'd expected that the secretarial agency might want to see them . |
| 17 | Spooner 's idea came from an invitation by his actor-neighbour , Jim Dale , to visit the set of the latest Carry On … film at Pinewood — which just happened to be Carry On Cleo . |
| 18 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 19 | In the event the money was nothing like enough because the new owners were able to force Ayling to pay for structural work which needed to be carried out to the upper part . |
| 20 | The final entrance was that of a huddled figure who needed to be carried into the room . |
| 21 | S 69 , FA 1985 , which replaced ss 124 , 125 , CGTA 1979 , and is itself now part of the Taxation of Capital Gains Act 1992 , makes it clear that , in connection with a retirement relief claim , a disposal of business assets is a disposal of the whole or part of a business , or a disposal of one or more assets which , at the time at which a business ceased to be carried on , were in use for the purposes of that business . |
| 22 | The station was filled with hissing steam engines ( well , it was some time back ) and one decided to belch , steam and whistle just as we passed , thus managing to blow the youngest daughter 's mind , who demanded to be carried on the spot — and at frequent intervals during the rest of the adventure . |
| 23 | The brief glimpse the signalman gained of the stranger was not sufficient to give a good description except that he was male and he appeared to be carrying a bag . |
| 24 | As we shall see , much of the early response from sociology wanted to off-load the epistemological ‘ freight ’ that the sociology of knowledge appeared to be carrying . |
| 25 | Behind him I could see my mum , Emily and Mrs Quigley , who appeared to be carrying a large sheaf of corn . |
| 26 | It appeared to be carrying something . |
| 27 | The discussions took place in the homes of some of the respondents and appeared to be carried out in a relaxed and informal manner . |
| 28 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 29 | The threat from the Red Army Faction then lessened , though murders continued to be carried out throughout the 1980s and US bases in West Germany were bombed . |
| 30 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |